The Travelling Linux Geek

I was amazed with what I saw on my feed reader: an article about a travelling Linux geek who basically went around Europe, Australia and South East Asia while sending in articles and stuff to earn a living. It’s really amazing for me to read such an experience because I can’t imagine travelling a lot because of the expenses of moving from the islands of the Philippines to another country. Even within the country it could be costly.

Anyhow, Juliet Kemp sounds like an awesome geek for doing this. Taking the time to travel and just see the world. Of course there had to concessions for things like what computer to bring, how to keep earning a living, etc. The author of the article also cited how to maintain being online while on the go since it was a ten-month long travel. Aside from that the author was connecting to servers on the other side of the planet using an Asus EEEPC. Which was something quite interesting. The only way to access them is from the little Asus EEEPC machine and varying internet speeds.

This is really an inspiring article for Linux geeks who might have been thinking of how to go around and travel. It’s not always easy to leave work behind because of fears that there might be issues that would come up and you won’t be there to fix it. But really, having access to servers via your terminal and having all sorts of neat tools are quite helpful. This article makes me think that sys ads could indeed consider working from home too even if they’re mostly maintaining servers and not helping people on their desktop machines.

After reading this article, I could say that Linux geeks could have fun too. There are ways and this particular Linux geek showed us how.